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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. WARREN AND ARTHUR SMITHSON, OF SEDAN, MINNESOTA.

WAGON-BOX SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,904, dated October2, 1900. Application filed April 19 189 9. Renewed March 23, 1900.Serial No. 9.965. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM (J. WARREN and ARTHUR SMITHSON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Sedan, in the county of Pope and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inwagon-box supports; and the object of ourinvention is to provide a novelcheaply-manufactured wagonbox support which will strengthen the box andat the same time secure it loosely in its place upon the bolster andprotect it from undue wear against the bolster andthe stakes. Thismanifold object we attain by the novel construction and arrangementillustrated in the accompanying.

drawings, in which Figure 1 is a rear end view of a wagon-box andbolster with our device applied to same. Fig. 2 is a sectional side viewon the line a a in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa bottom view of the boxsupportalone detached from the wagon-box.

Referring to the drawings by letters of reference, A is the box, B thebolster, and O the stakes, of an ordinary box-wagon'like farmers Wagons,for instance. In this class of Wagons the box is usually provided at itsbottom with two wooden cleats fitting at both sides of the bolster, andthe stakes (l are left to rub freely against the sides of the wagon-box,which is thereby often worn out or badly damaged, especially as thewooden cleats by wear and shrinkage soon allow the box to playconsiderably on the bolster. To overcome these defects, we provide thesheet metallic lining or plate D,which we form with two deep grooves orcorrugations E and the flanges F, which stand in plane with the body ofthe plate and are provided with holes G for securing the plate by rivetsor screws H across the bottom of the wagon-box,

so that the corrugations E pass snugly down at both sides of the bolsterB and take the place of the old-style cleats, but in a more effectivemanner both for guiding, strengthening, and protecting the box.

The ends of the plate D are formed with broad hooks J, extending upwardat each side of the box, to which they are secured by the rivets, bolts,or screws K. These hooks may preferably be let into the sides of thebox, as shown in Fig. 1, about flush with the wood. Their service is tostrengthen and protect the box and protect it against wear by theadjacent stakes (3. By lining the stakes and the bolster with sheet-iron(not shown) it is obvious that our invention becomes still moreserviceable and valuable in that it reduces wear and tear of the partsin question to a minimum.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination with a wagon-box and the bolster supporting it, of ametallic sheet interposed between the bolster and the wagonbox,andadapted to be secured to the latter; said sheet having solid endportions as wide as the bolster extending upward at both sides of thewagon-box, it also having two corrugations depending downward one in thefront and the other in the rear of the bolster, su bstantially as andfor the purposes set forth.

2. The combination with the box, bolster and bolster-stakes of a wagon,of a sheet metallic lining extending all along the top of the bolsterand up between the bolster stakes or standards and the box, said liningbeing securable to the wagon-box, and having two corrugations dependingone in front and the other in the rear of the bolster, substantially asand for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

WILLIAM C. WARREN. ARTHUR SMITHSON.

Witnesses:

JAMES KENEDY, A. B. THOENY.

